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RIA / WealthAdvisordual registered (broker-dealer)40 years in industry

Mary Foust

Advisor at MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

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Data as of Sep 14, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings. Page built Sep 21, 2026, 10:12 AM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Relationships: 2
Dated events: 0
On other graphs: 0
Observed: Jan 16, 2001 to Sep 14, 2026

Across DFX

This entity has not been resolved onto another DFX graph by a shared identifier. A name match elsewhere would be a candidate, never an identity, and none is recorded.

Facts

fact = as filed or announced; derived = computed by DFX; estimate = a band, never a point

Current firm: MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED
Current firm class: wirehousederived
Book size: not publicno per-advisor AUM is published by the SEC, FINRA or IAPD, and DFX estimates none
Industry start: Aug 29, 1986earliest registration or exam on IAPD
Years in industry: 40derivedfrom the industry start date
Years at current firm: 24derivedfrom the current registration's begin date
Prior firms: 1
Current registrations: 1
Registered states: 1
Exams: S65|S63
First exam: Aug 29, 1986
First registration: Jan 16, 2001
Dual registered: yes, broker-dealer
Other names: MARY K FOUST|MARY KATHERINE FOUST
IAPD individual key: 1536333

Registration history

registration spans on IAPD; the basis says whether the span is a current registration or a prior employment record

Firm	Class	Began	Ended	Current	Branch	Basis
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED	Wirehouse	Jul 15, 2002	n/a	yes	SAN FRANCISCO, CA	Current employment
ROBERTSON STEPHENS, INC.	n/a	Jan 16, 2001	Jul 26, 2002	no	SAN FRANCISCO, CA	Previous registration

Moves

a move is two registration dates; a bulk corporate re-registration is typed BULK_TRANSFER and is not a move

From	To	Left	Joined	Gap, days	Kind	Move type
ROBERTSON STEPHENS, INC.	MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED	Jul 26, 2002	Jul 15, 2002	-11	Firm change	Other

Relationships

Registered with (2)

→ MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATEDRegistered adviserregistration: current employment
Jul 15, 2002 to presentfactForm ADV
→ ROBERTSON STEPHENS, INC.Registered adviserregistration: previous registration
Jan 16, 2001 to Jul 26, 2002factForm ADV

Dated events

No dated event names this entity yet.

Provenance

Graph: RIA / Wealth Management
Canonical id: dfx:ria:5e9790bb-b0d7-947c-ca8e-f44936eadebe
First observed: Jan 16, 2001
Last observed: Sep 14, 2026 7 days ago
Source families: Federal regulator filings
1 registered feed stand behind this record; each fact above carries its own dates and, where the publisher serves one, its document.
Resolution: Identity across graphs by shared identifier (CRD, CIK, EIN, ADV fund id, individual CRD) or citation; a name match is shown as a candidate and never merged.

Mary Foust

Advisor at MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

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Search this name across graphsid dfx:ria:5e9790bb-b0d7-947c-ca8e-f44936eadebe

Data as of Sep 14, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings. Page built Sep 21, 2026, 10:12 AM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Firm

Class

Began

Ended

Current

Branch

Basis

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

Wirehouse

Jul 15, 2002

n/a

yes

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Current employment

ROBERTSON STEPHENS, INC.

n/a

Jan 16, 2001

Jul 26, 2002

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Previous registration

From

Left

Joined

Gap, days

Kind

Move type

ROBERTSON STEPHENS, INC.

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

Jul 26, 2002

Jul 15, 2002

-11

Firm change

Other